Money, who has led United to runners-up spot in the league and FA Trophy success, said: “It’s another feather in the team’s cap and one that we’re pleased to receive.

“We’re pleased people think that way, but we have to be very mindful of the fact that what happens on Sunday is more important.”

He said he could not speak highly enough of the way United had coped with different tests and often passed them with flying colours.

Money said: “I think we’ve been consistent. We’ve been very difficult to score against and very difficult to play against, but we’ve also played some really good football.

“We’ve shown we can battle against teams like Halifax and we can win the football games when you play a team like Luton and if you can do that at both ends of the spectrum, you’ve got a chance that you can have a pretty good season.

“There’s no doubt when we started to put the squad together at the beginning of the year we thought we could be in play-off contention.

“Obviously with the start we made expectations started to rise, but I think we always knew that if (Andre) Gray and (Paul) Benson got their act together then it was going to be difficult to stop Luton and I think pretty early on we realised that we may have to go down this route we’re taking if we’re going to get promoted.

“That being said, we’ve been able to do that and we’ve reached the final hurdle and now we’ve got to come through it.”

Money added that it would be hard to meet a more “humble” set of players than those at United.

He said: “We’ve tried to instil that into the group all year. I’m very keen that we show people the right amount of respect and act in a really humble way, mindful of the fact that others maybe don’t.

“We didn’t jump for joy at Blundell Park when we knew we were going to the FA Trophy final and we didn’t jump for joy last Sunday.

“I think behaving in the right manner is a good trait to have. What it means is people can keep their feet on the ground pretty easily and pretty quickly and focus on the job in hand.”